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Paris, My Sweet

Paris, My Sweet
  • Author(s): Amy Thomas
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Modern

Paris My Sweet is a memoir of a year in the life of thirty-six year old Amy, who works for Louis Vuitton. It is a guide book in part to the Paris bakeries, part love letter to this great...

Poppy Does Paris

Poppy Does Paris
  • Author(s): Nicola Doherty
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The first instalment in this hilarious, romantic and unputdownable five-part series. Perfect for fans of Lindsey Kelk’s I Heart… novels. Paris. City of love, city of romance. The last place you want to go to on a work trip when you’re...

Run Away

Run Away
  • Author(s): Alex Johnson
  • Location(s): Australia, Paris, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Julie’s been haunted by the memories of her failed marriage for far too long. Devastated when Lisa, her teenage daughter, sets off on a Gap Year trip, Julie realises she really is on her own. She buries herself in...

Secrets of Paris

Secrets of Paris
  • Author(s): Luanne Rice
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Lydie McBride has always embraced life to the fullest. But when an unthinkable tragedy strikes her family, everything she believes in is shattered. Her art-historian husband, Michael, watches the passion disappear from Lydie’s eyes and from their marriage, and...

Skin Deep

Skin Deep
  • Author(s): Antonia Lassa
  • Location(s): Biarritz, Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When police arrest eccentric loner Émile Gassiat for the murder of a wealthy woman in a shabby seaside apartment in Biarritz, Inspector Canonne is certain he has put the killer behind bars. Now he just needs to prove it....

Spies of the Balkans

Spies of the Balkans
  • Author(s): Alan Furst
  • Location(s): Balkans, Paris, Thessaloniki (Salonika)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

Salonika 1940, Constantine Zannis the central character, policeman working on sensitive cases. As the war draws closer he becomes more involved in spying and Allied agent. He assists in the escape of Jews from Germany, to Turkey, and to...

Standing Heavy

Standing Heavy
  • Author(s): Frank Wynne (Translator), Gauz
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): 1960s to present day

Initially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard’s smile. The security guard adores babies. Perhaps because babies do not shoplift. Babies adore the security guard. Perhaps because he does not drag babies to the sales. The...

The Bones of Paris

The Bones of Paris
  • Author(s): Laurie R King
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1929

Paris, 1929. For Harris Stuyvesant, the assignment is a private investigator’s dream – he’s getting paid to troll the cafes and bars of Montparnasse, looking for a pretty young woman. The missing person in question is Philippa Crosby, a...

The Book of Salt

The Book of Salt
  • Author(s): Monique Truong
  • Location(s): Belley, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s, 1930s

Saigon in the 20s, Paris in the 30s, this is the story of loss and exile. Paris in the household of Gertrude Stein, and Saigon the homeland. A touchingly evocative novel.

The Cult of Nostalgia

The Cult of Nostalgia
  • Author(s): Bruce Bruschi
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s, 1960s, modern

Carly, a ditsy life-coach with no clue of how to coach anyone, including herself, dashes to Paris to confront her ex-boyfriend who is honeymooning with a member of the Morningside cult and who has stolen Carly’s great-uncle’s diary.

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